What Is Dogma 25 - the New Cinematic Movement Unveiled in Cannes?

What is Dogma 25 - the new cinematic movement unveiled in Cannes?

Three decades after the first and hugely influential Dogma wave, five filmmakers are initiating a new cinematic movement: DOGMA 25. It is a defiant response to current events and a marked opposition to the internet.

The Danish filmmaker quartet Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen and Kristian Levring created Dogma 95 30 years ago. Now the Dogma manifesto has been updated and five new directors want to revitalize the art of cinema.

Within the framework of the Cannes Festival, a group of Danish and Swedish filmmakers have made known a manifesto called “Dogma 25”... something clearly influenced by the movement led by Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg, Dogma 95. Dogma 25 / Photo: Instagra/zentropaproductions “Without author cinema, there will be no originality in conventional cinema” “In a world where cinema is based on algorithms and artificial visual expressions gain str…

Dogma 25 Movement Launches 30 Years After Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg’s Dogme 95

It’s now been 30 years since Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg launched the Dogme 95 movement, featuring a set of stripped-down filmmaking rules to put power back in the hands of directors. While films such as Festen, The Idiots, and even Harmony Korine’s Julien Donkey-Boy emerged, it eventually died out about a decade on, but now a group of Danish directors have launched their own manifesto with Dogma 25. As formed by May el-Thouky (Queen of…